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I find it weird how the movies in the past have been pretty good at being able to consistently credit voice actors, and with this one there were at least 4 other characters that spoke at least a line or two, that never got any credit. Kind of annoyed me when I was looking into the cast of the movie around the time the film came out.

@ajhz That's correct. Or Knock Out. Or Chase. Or Blurr. Or Strika. Or Clampdown. Or many of the other 700+ characters in this franchise. There's a good chance that, you know, not everyone will get a spot. ;) Let's not get into listing characters that movies don't include, otherwise we'll be here forever.

@AnimeFan666 Well, they're two different names for two different characters, so I like both, I guess?
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Actually, now that I think about it, his black-and-orange design in TLK seems like it would've been a better reference to RID Hot Shot than to any other previous version of Hot Rod, to be honest.

I knew that Hot Rod' s design reminded me of something and earlier today it hit me that he looks like Princess Leia's disguise as the bounty hunter Boushh from Return of the Jedi: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Boushh

@GreenGoblin75 He had Megatron's mind, so Galvatron was a reformatted Megs with a human-built body. Perhaps he just starts using his original name again because Galvatron was a human-given name. At this point who knows?

@Polyester Funk Or maybe, this Megatron is actually a previous Cybertronian that'll appear during a flashback of the Knights' origins & Galvatron will return as the reincarnation of Megatron. That's my thought anyway.